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diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.sgi/MAKEDEV.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.sgi/MAKEDEV.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b5bb1aa88b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man8/man8.sgi/MAKEDEV.8 @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.1 2004/08/06 23:01:35 mickey Exp $ +.\" +.\" THIS FILE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. +.\" generated from: +.\" +.\" OpenBSD: etc.sgi/MAKEDEV.md,v 1.1 2004/08/06 21:58:22 pefo Exp +.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.common,v 1.10 2004/06/03 18:36:59 grange Exp +.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.man,v 1.3 2004/03/12 18:12:12 miod Exp +.\" OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.mansub,v 1.2 2004/02/20 19:13:01 miod Exp +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2004, Miodrag Vallat +.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF +.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.Dd August 3, 2004 +.Dt MAKEDEV 8 sgi +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm MAKEDEV +.Nd create system and device special files +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm MAKEDEV +.Ar name +.Op Ar ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The shell script +.Nm , +found in the +.Pa /dev +directory, is used to create various special files. +See +.Xr intro 4 +for a more complete discussion of special files. +.Pp +.Nm +takes any number of device names as arguments, where the names are +the common abbreviation for the device or group of devices. +.Pp +Where a device name is followed by a star +.Sq * , +the star must be replaced by a unit number. +If units are expected for a device but not provided, +.Nm +will supply the standard numbers in most cases. +.Pp +The sgi supports the following devices: +.Pp +.Sy Special device names +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar all +Creates special files for all devices on sgi. +.It Ar std +Creates the +.Sq standard +devices (console, drum, klog, kmem, ksyms, mem, null, +stderr, stdin, stdout, tty, zero) +which are absolutely necessary for the system to function properly. +.It Ar fd +fd/* nodes for fdescfs, see +.Xr mount_fdesc 8 . +.It Ar local +Creates configuration-specific devices, by invoking the shell file +.Pa MAKEDEV.local . +.It Ar ramdisk +Ramdisk kernel devices. +.El +.Pp +.Sy Tapes +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar st* +SCSI tape drives, see +.Xr st 4 . +.El +.Pp +.Sy Disks +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar wd* +.Dq winchester +disk drives (ST506, IDE, ESDI, RLL, ...), see +.Xr wd 4 . +.It Ar sd* +SCSI disks, including flopticals, see +.Xr sd 4 . +.It Ar cd* +ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM drives, see +.Xr cd 4 . +.It Ar ch* +SCSI media changers, see +.Xr ch 4 . +.It Ar vnd* +.Dq file +pseudo-disk devices, see +.Xr vnd 4 . +.It Ar rd* +.Dq rd +pseudo-disks, see +.Xr rd 4 . +.It Ar ccd* +Concatenated disk devices, see +.Xr ccd 4 . +.El +.Pp +.Sy Console ports +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.El +.Pp +.Sy Terminal ports +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar tty[0-7][0-9a-f] +NS16x50 serial ports, see +.Xr com 4 . +.El +.Pp +.Sy Pseudo terminals +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar tty* +Set of 62 slave pseudo terminals, see +.Xr tty 4 . +.It Ar pty* +Set of 62 master pseudo terminals, see +.Xr pty 4 . +.El +.Pp +.Sy USB devices +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.El +.Pp +.Sy Special purpose devices +.Bl -tag -width tenletters -compact +.It Ar bpf* +Berkeley Packet Filter, see +.Xr bpf 4 . +.It Ar tun* +Network tunnel driver, see +.Xr tun 4 . +.It Ar *random +In-kernel random data source, see +.Xr random 4 . +.It Ar uk* +SCSI unknown devices, see +.Xr uk 4 . +.It Ar ss* +SCSI scanners, see +.Xr ss 4 . +.It Ar pf* +Packet Filter, see +.Xr pf 4 . + + ;; + + +.El +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev -compact +.It Pa /dev +The special file directory. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr config 8 , +.Xr mknod 8 |